Joan Hess's Maggody, Arkansa series. In it is an inbred, loutish family called Buchanan, and I swear that I dated one of them!! ONCE!!
And of course the Pern series by Anne McCaffree, but don't like the ones by her son. Won't waste money on any more of his.
Dianne Mott Davidson's series about the chef/murder solving Goldy, several of those, which are all set in CO.
And there's several I re-read often, since I don't like most of the new ones, they are too harsh and violent.
There are lots of old classics, The Egg and I, Cheaper by the Dozen, all the ones of WW2 by Manning Coles, (I fell in love with Tommy Hambleton years ago), and two real classics by Louise Dickenson Rich, We Took To The Woods, and Happy The Land. Those I can read several times a year, and can remember lots of what she wrote about, living so far back in the hills.
The series by Carol Higgins Clark, daughter of Mary Higgings Clark, and to my mind a more readable author.
Just looking at my book cases with favorite older books soothes my soul, just as running my hands over piles of quilting fabric does!!!!!
I read a LOT and read fast, but in spite of remembering all the book, I love going over it again, like listening to favorite music over and over.